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11/19/2013

Contact: Nan Broadbentnbroadbe@sfsu.edu415-338-7108San Francisco State University

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14, 2013 -- SF State's Metro Academies, an innovative program that helps underrepresented students succeed in college, has earned national recognition for its success in retaining and graduating students. The California State University (CSU) recently awarded the program additional funding to scale up its efforts at SF State.

The Metro Academies was among three inaugural winners of the Most Visible Progress Degree Completion Award, bestowed by the Association of Public-Land Grant Universities at a ceremony during its 126th annual conference in Washington, D.C.

The Metro Academies Initiative redesigns the first two years of college, the critical period when many students tend to drop out. Students in each academy study in a cohort of up to 140 students that is like a 'school within a school,' and receive tutoring, extra counseling and one-on-one support from faculty.

After proving effective at retaining low-income, first-generation and underrepresented students, the six-year-old initiative has received $675,000 in permanent, annual funding from the CSU's Academic and Student Success Program.

"This marks our transition from being a successful add-on program to becoming permanently built into the structure of the university itself," said Mary Beth Love, program director and chair of the health education department. "The added honor from APLU is simply terrific."

Metro Academies, a partnership between SF State and City College of San Francisco, provides students with a structured sequence of classes that satisfy general education requirements, while also being infused with a particular academic theme. SF State currently offers Metro Academies focused on health education, child and adolescent development and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

"In the next three years we will expand from the current three Metro Academies, which serve 9 percent of the incoming freshmen class, to 14 academies serving one quarter of all future incoming classes," Love said.

By fall 2015, the program will serve approximately 25 percent of students from each incoming class. "This matches the demographic that we aim to serve," Love said. "It means that all underrepresented, low-income and first-generation students at SF State can be in a Metro Academy if they choose."

This rapid expansion is made possible by the CSU funding together with a recent $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Strengthening Institutions Program.

"We will launch Metro Academies across the institution in areas such as ethnic studies, business and humanities," Love said. "The curriculum of each one will share a common focus on social responsibility, which is so important because it makes the learning relevant to the population we serve."

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For more information about Metro Academies, watch this video on the program, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EWeMsNudRI&feature=share&list=PLzHrTCnecjqvFMur2VJLbEYz4YdqRTSyi, or visit http://www.metroacademies.org

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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14, 2013 -- SF State's Metro Academies, an innovative program that helps underrepresented students succeed in college, has earned national recognition for its success in retaining and graduating students. The California State University (CSU) recently awarded the program additional funding to scale up its efforts at SF State.

The Metro Academies was among three inaugural winners of the Most Visible Progress Degree Completion Award, bestowed by the Association of Public-Land Grant Universities at a ceremony during its 126th annual conference in Washington, D.C.

The Metro Academies Initiative redesigns the first two years of college, the critical period when many students tend to drop out. Students in each academy study in a cohort of up to 140 students that is like a 'school within a school,' and receive tutoring, extra counseling and one-on-one support from faculty.

After proving effective at retaining low-income, first-generation and underrepresented students, the six-year-old initiative has received $675,000 in permanent, annual funding from the CSU's Academic and Student Success Program.

"This marks our transition from being a successful add-on program to becoming permanently built into the structure of the university itself," said Mary Beth Love, program director and chair of the health education department. "The added honor from APLU is simply terrific."

Metro Academies, a partnership between SF State and City College of San Francisco, provides students with a structured sequence of classes that satisfy general education requirements, while also being infused with a particular academic theme. SF State currently offers Metro Academies focused on health education, child and adolescent development and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

"In the next three years we will expand from the current three Metro Academies, which serve 9 percent of the incoming freshmen class, to 14 academies serving one quarter of all future incoming classes," Love said.

By fall 2015, the program will serve approximately 25 percent of students from each incoming class. "This matches the demographic that we aim to serve," Love said. "It means that all underrepresented, low-income and first-generation students at SF State can be in a Metro Academy if they choose."

This rapid expansion is made possible by the CSU funding together with a recent $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Strengthening Institutions Program.

"We will launch Metro Academies across the institution in areas such as ethnic studies, business and humanities," Love said. "The curriculum of each one will share a common focus on social responsibility, which is so important because it makes the learning relevant to the population we serve."

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For more information about Metro Academies, watch this video on the program, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EWeMsNudRI&feature=share&list=PLzHrTCnecjqvFMur2VJLbEYz4YdqRTSyi, or visit http://www.metroacademies.org

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11/15/2013

Notification Center in OS X Mavericks has an awesome new feature that lets you subscribe to updates from your favorite websites so they'll feed right into Notification Center. For websites that support it, I've found it to actually be extremely convenient. Here's how to get started:

Before starting, note that a website must support updates before you can actually use them. At this time, I don't know many that do but the number should grow as sites start integrating support for the feature. For this example, I'm using eBay.

Launch Safari from the desktop of your Mac running OS X Mavericks and navigate to the site you want to get notifications from.

If you're on a website that supports Notification Center updates in OS X Mavericks, you should see a popup resembling the one below. Click on Allow. (Note that some sites obviously only ask you if you're logged into an account, such as eBay, which can send account notifications to Notification Center.)

That's it. You can now check Notification Center for any notifications.

If you have notifications, you'll see them in the respective section like below.

That's all there is to it. While there seems to be very limited support for this right now, it's one of my favorite features of OS X Mavericks and I really hope other services start supporting it soon. I've found it especially useful if you sell a lot of items on eBay and want to keep up with messages and other interactions without having to check emails or launch web browsers.

If you've had a chance to try out website notifications in Mavericks as well, let us know what you think about them in the comments! And of course, if you've found sites that support them, by all means let us know what ones you've found!

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11/10/2013

The UFC Fight Night 32 main card ventured to the light heavyweight division for our fourth fight of the night as former Strikeforce champion Rafael Cavalcante would take on Igor Pokrajac. The former champ would come out with his first UFC victory tonight in Goiana over the Croatian fighter.

Igor Pokrajac got just what he wanted in a bout that saw a lot of clinch work and brawling strikes but it was not the result he wanted as Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante blasted him. Cavalcante weathered an early storm and clinch by Pokrajac to secure a Muay Thai clinch that he took full advantage as he teed off with big strikes that dropped the Croatian. Feijao has improved to 1-1 in the UFC, while Pokrajac has now gone four fights without a victory.

Play-by-Play:

Rd. 1- Touch of gloves and we’re off. Pokrajac is swarming and Feijao isn’t backing down as he responds with hard strikes. Pokrajac clinches against the cage but Feijao works to the Thai clinch and he goes to work with huge knees to the body. Knees to the head now and Feijao drops the Croatian with punches. A few punches on the ground and that’s a wrap.